The biggest mullocker of the last 25 years

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

That’s the chap

[cowpat]

What about the biggest hatchet man, or is that the same thing?

[glasagusban]

@anon78624367

There was a good chance lads who started without a helmet or took it off were game for a mullock

Any lad who wore a helmet without a faceguard on it.

[glasagusban]

@anon78624367

Horses of men could be a separate topic

Brian Geary. Lock the thread.

[Tassotti]

Ollie Baker had no hurling ffs. Any bit was bate into him by Loughnane. A blind man could see it. His role was an enforcer.

[Fat_Pox]

@binkybarnes

After watching Clare v Offaly 1998 on Eirsport yesterday Ger Oakley from Offaly springs to mind. Not sure if he was a mullocker or just a shit hurler.

He had the best nickname I’ve ever heard. They called him the towel.

He was usually a sub when that good offaly team were coming to the end of their time. He often be brought in as a sub when theyd be getting bet well in some game. Hence they were throwing in the towel.

[Tassotti]

Baker could not even make the harty team ffs sake in flannans. 2years later he was winning all Ireland’s

[binkybarnes]

@Big_Dan_Campbell

There was a lad hurling for Dublin under Ger Cunningham who’s name escapes me. Get played him midfield, he had a decent engine but could not strike the ball when on the move. I used to always find it amusing how he would burn a lad and a feed yards only to inevitably be hooked

Daire Plunkett I’d say cc @Bandage. Blinding pace but not much else.

[flattythehurdler]

@maroonandwhite

That walter is a mullocker per se

Find where I said that exactly

[ChairmanDan]

@Big_Dan_Campbell

Baker going off injured in early second half of the 99 Munster final had a far more negative impact on the side than missing Colin Lynch in 98.

Clare were red hot favourites all year to win the All Ireland in 1998, even more so after the demolition of Waterford in the Munster Final replay, when Lynch was outstanding. They lost to their next opponents Offaly in the All Ireland semi final, with Lynch suspended.

[Thomas_Brady]

Clare were blackguarded in 1998.

[balbec]

Watched it last night. Outrageous.

[maroonandwhite]

@flattythehurdler

The kk lad who thinks Glynn is a mullocker, denies Walter walshe ever was. I’d say you couldn’t make it up, but he is.

Here no?

[Thomas_Brady]

No - No - No … He’s saying the same lad that considers Glynn a mullocker doesnt consider Walsh to be one and he wants someone to square that circle.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Coughlan who played full back for Waterford under Derek McGrath is another lad who was a pure mullocker. Had no interest in doing any covering or tidying up in the full back line as De Burca was doing all that stuff. Just marked his man and would spend the match needling him and never worried too much about the ball. He was very limited but knew his role.

Stephen O’Brien for Tipp was another in recent times. Very much looked like a footballer playing hurling and slow with everything he did with a hurley despite being a powerful athlete and the same could be said of Aidan Walsh albeit he had a handful of effective championship performances.

Cathal Malone as well, great man to stifle a man and put in tackles but just looks slow and uncoordinated whenever he gets the ball.

[kerry1891]

@Big_Dan_Campbell

…g one. In 95 he most certainly was a pure mullocker but he developed hugely in the years after and in 97/98/99 he was hurling lads up a stick.Mick Fennelly was something similar, looked well short of what was needed in 2008/2009 when he was first coming on the scene then he just developed into a beast

in the wind up he was back mullocking, witness him falling all over the place as DJ plays cat and mouse with him in the all Ireland final as he lobs over a beauty

[Ashman]

Baker was probably passed it at stage with injuries etc …

[kerry1891]

@Julio_Geordio

He was more just shit than a mullocker

agreed

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Yeah he was done, couldn’t keep the weight off and injuries had taken their toll. His ankles were fucked. In the space of around 18 months he regressed badly

[kerry1891]

@anon78624367

the brick made it look cool. A mullocker has to look like a mullocker

plus Brick had a skill named after him with the old Brick flick, disqualifies him from this competition